A Mississauga teen made quite the splash at last weekend's provincial wakeboarding championship, beating out 30 competitors to take first place.
Fifteen-year-old Dary Znebel strung together a spectacular display of inverts, spins and rails to triumph in the men’s age 14-18 category at the championship in Head Lake Park, Haliburton.
Znebel will move on to compete at a number of events later this summer, including Wakestock at the Toronto Islands and the Canadian Wakeboarding Championship in August.
The teen had been honing his skills for the event at the Orlando Wakeboard Academy in Florida, training that paid off when he turned in excellent runs in both the preliminary heats and the finals on the weekend.
Znebel plans to spend the rest of the summer training at his cottage in Muskoka for his remaining competitions.
Znebel is sponsored by O'Brien, Surf Paradise, Lost, JetPilot and Straightline.
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